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S'Intrumpa: The Gherradores Sardinian Wrestling

Categories Traditions & Folklore History & Culture     Tags: traditions & folklore history & culture    0 Comments S'Intrumpa: The Gherradores Sardinian Wrestling

The Sardinian fight, or S'Istrumpa , is a very ancient form of wrestling, perhaps the oldest of sports, handed down for millennia from generation to generation, as evidenced by the bronzes of the...

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The Nuragic Well Of Morgongiori

Categories History & Culture     Tags: history & culture    0 Comments The Nuragic Well Of Morgongiori

The temple of Sa Scaba 'e Cresia is a hypogeic well-temple, an underground building of historical interest, in the ancient Sardinian region of Marmilla , in the Oristano province in Morgongiori...

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Supramonte of Sardinia

Categories Personalities Nature & Landscape History & Culture Hiking & Trekking     Tags: personalities nature & landscape history & culture hiking & trekking    0 Comments Supramonte of Sardinia

The complex of Supramonte, Sardinia’s core of Barbagia County, is about 130 km far and two hours drive from the Gabbiano Azzurro Hotel & Suites .  Approaching by car, with the colou...

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The English Cemetery in Golfo Aranci

Categories Nature & Landscape History & Culture Hiking & Trekking Golfo Aranci     Tags: nature & landscape history & culture hiking & trekking golfo aranci    0 Comments The English Cemetery in Golfo Aranci

In the direction of Capo Figari , behind Cala Greca, past by the stunning beach of Cala Moresca,  (only 5 kilometres far from the Gabbiano Azzurro Hotel & Suites ), there is a small cem...

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The Swords In The Stones

Categories History & Culture     Tags: history & culture    0 Comments The Swords In The Stones

Who among us does not know the legend of Excalibur, the mythical sword stuck in the rock that would have consecrated King the man capable of extracting it, which was achieved by Arthur who thus becam...

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Alluai! Fishing With Euphorbia Juice

Categories Nature & Landscape History & Culture     Tags: nature & landscape history & culture    0 Comments Alluai! Fishing With Euphorbia Juice

In Sardinia grows a variety of euphorbia very common in the countryside. It is a shrub with roundish foliage, which produces yellow flowers from January to April and goes into hibernation in the war...

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A World's Heritage: Dry-Stone Walls

Categories Nature & Landscape History & Culture     Tags: nature & landscape history & culture    0 Comments A World's Heritage: Dry-Stone Walls

Half a century ago, Ferdinando Manno wrote in his " Centuries among the olive trees ": " For generations and generations, the farmers gathered this immense quantity of stones ordering them one by...

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A Journey Into The Local Past: Sa Domo De Marras

Categories Traditions & Folklore History & Culture Experiences & Activities     Tags: traditions & folklore history & culture experiences & activities    0 Comments A Journey Into The Local Past: Sa Domo De Marras

An excursion from which I brought back with me a captivating experience was at the ethnographic museum "Sa Domo 'e Sos Marras " , an ancient eighteenth-century manor house, located in the histor...

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A Sardinian Nobel Prized Author: Grazia Deledda

Categories Personalities History & Culture     Tags: personalities history & culture    0 Comments A Sardinian Nobel Prized Author: Grazia Deledda

"I'm very small, you know, I'm short even compared to Sardinian women who are very small, but I'm bold and brave like a giant and I'm not afraid of intellectual battles." Thus, Grazia Deledda w...

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Singers Of Sardinia

Categories Traditions & Folklore Personalities History & Culture     Tags: traditions & folklore personalities history & culture    0 Comments Singers Of Sardinia

During the superb holidays spent at the Gabbiano Azzurro Hotel & Suites, Sardinian songs are an experience to take home as it’s comparable to the sun: it lingers on the skin and then remai...

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